'Pazhassi Raja', the magnum opus starring Mollywood superstar Mammootty, is all set to hit cinemas on October 2. This hugely anticipated period movie, written by MT Vasudevan Nair and directed by Hariharan, is about the warrior prince Pazhassi Raja who took on the might of the British Empire during the last years of the 18th century.
The film, produced by Gokulam Gopalan, is reportedly the costliest Malayalam movie to date.
Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan and Shah Rukh Khan will introduce the movie in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi respectively. Ilaiyaraja scroes the music and Resul Pookkutty posts the sound. Another unique thing about the movie is that the viewers would be spared of gross SFX. The look would be as authentic as it can be, say the makers.
The cast includes Sarathkumar, Kanika Subramaniam, Padmapriya, Manoj K. Jayan, Thilakan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Suresh Krishna, Suman and Linda Arsenio.
Click on, for the latest pictures from the Mammootty starrer...
After so many six packs good to see some huge pot bellies and flabby chests.
All the best to the team that is as old as the story they are planning to tell
we will see how they depicted the fact through media, on the basis of work we wil put our opinions. let us think in open minded Indian, not there way round. am I correct?
Would like to know in which theater in Bangalore it is getting released. PVR or Inox?
Ved VVV3 has myopic eyes, he is talking nonsense without understanding what really changed the social status of people in Kerala.
If English learning would have improved the social status of people, then what is happening to the blacks in Britain, US and South Africa? Why blacks in these countries were oppressed for centuries? Why they are addressed with the similar/equivalent words in English like that the ones Mr. Ved mentioned in his own comment?
Social change in Kerala was the result of intervention of people like Gandhiji, Mannathu Padmanabhan, Ayyan Kali etc, etc. One thing to be noted is that so many upper caste people also supported this movement (Remember Vaikom Satyagrham). The contribution of Communist party is also commendable. It is not English education that brought social change in Kerala.
Mr. Ved vvv3 : Let me ask one question, you think, English education has brought change in the social system of Kerala. Tell me how many of the people who belong to your caste will be able to speak or read English fluently? It is a known fact that Malayalis are poor in communicating in English no matter which caste or religion they belong. We have English medium school in each and every corner of Kerala now, but number of people who can speak that language is very less. Then think about the situation 50 or 60 years ago. No point in believing that people got English education, they read about the social condition existed in Britain at that time and that brought a change in the social system of Kerala.
You can tell all this, which more or less any school student in Kerala will repeat in a most automated manner. Well, you can also tell that to the pooer classes here, but then I would tell them: Learn English and escape your social suppression-but not the English taught in English Medium Schools, which is only a translation of Indian feudal languages.
Mannathu Padmanabhan,and Ayyan Kali, I think are not from a British ruled area.
As to Black in UK and US, if they imagine they are a suppressed class, well then, they should move over to India, the 'land where the black are liberated'
As to social change, it has not come to Kerala, only a lot of techonogy that brought in a lot of gadgetry and slight change in dressing standards. Social change is connected to social interation, and it still remains, feudal.
As to communist party, it is also downright feudal in its dealings with the lower classes. Moreover less all the feudal words, I mentioned are used by them to their subordinate/follwer class; not much different from the feudal classes, they claim to remove.
The British also had a tough time to teach English to the Indians. All the Indian leaders got alarmed by the possibility of their servant classes learning English. See Macaulay’s Minutes on Indian Education
I think it a bit sneaky of MSN India, to remove all my comments and retain all the retorts. My side of the writing has been without profanity and also, without expletives. Moreover, I had not tried any personal attacks, as done to me.
All that was attempted was just inputs about the authenticity and historical background of a film that is about to be released. If this is the way MSN India, deals with debates, then why a comment area, with the facility of reply, and external links? Everything is there in the NCERT textbooks written by ‘experts’.
Is it possible that some Taliban mentality guys have sneaked into MSN India, or is this the way MSN act over there in the USA?
Usually I retain a copy of all my such comments in another forum page with links to the Search Engine Cache. Only google has it, currently. .